Posts Tagged ‘Believe Out Loud’
Sermon Shorts
Throughout the month of June, we’ve shared a series of short sermon videos called #SermonShorts. Compiled from our previous LGBTQIA-affirming services, these 1-minute clips of spiritual nourishment are all about Pride and believing out loud: Step Into the Light Miracle of the Rainbow Demanding to Be Seen We Are a Reflection of God We invite…
Read MorePride Throughout the Years
Pride is a time to bring people together—to celebrate—to stand up for the freedom to believe out loud! This year, Pride celebrations may look a little different, but we’re still creating space for joy and connection. We invite you to look back with us at how our team at Believe Out Loud has commemorated…
Read MoreJoin Our Pride Community Padlet!
For Pride this year, we’re focused on building community and sharing resources on our very own padlet! Here you will find a space to share Pride celebrations, with helpful resources, affirming graphics to download, information about our partners and an invitation to share your thoughts about how you identify. Curated by the Believe Out Team,…
Read MoreBelieving Out Loud with Ben and Victoria
Ben and Victoria, two team members of Believe Out Loud, present an animated discussion on practicing faith in the workplace and what believing out loud means to them. Believe Out Loud is a faith-based organization that aims to amplify counter-narratives on the intersections of faith and sexuality through digital media and advocacy. Produced By Believe…
Read MoreFour states cast votes for marriage equality
As the nation heads to the polls tomorrow, voters in four states will consider ballot initiatives on same-sex marriage. In Minnesota, supporters of marriage equality have organized to defeat Amendment 1, which would limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman. Catholics for Marriage Equality make this simple argument against the amendment:…
Read MoreStickers Someday
I was sitting in that red swivel chair I had in my office when I heard her knock. Her knuckles trampolined against the glass pane that was next to my door, and sent bullets of sound ricocheting off pictures, and books, and the potted plant my boss had given me on my first day, which…
Read MoreCatholic Parents Talk To Maryland About Marriage Equality
Marylanders for Marriage Equality released a new web ad featuring lifelong Catholics Pat and Jenny Nugent. They have been married for forty-eight years and have seven children and eleven grandchildren. “We are both cradle Catholics, have always participated in church been very active in our parishes,” Jenny said. When their son Kevin was a sophomore…
Read MoreWeek In Review
Good Monday morning. Welcome to Believe Out Loud’s Week In Review, a weekly digest of the latest headlines at the intersection of Christianity and LGBT equality. If you were told God is not a Christian, nor a Muslim or a Jew, what would you say? Bishop Shelby Spong, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of…
Read MoreMarriage Equality: A New Heaven, A New Earth
Investigative reporting can pull back the curtain on truths that are kept hidden. When Carlos Maza went “under cover” to a NOM (National Organization for Marriage) weekend event for college students, he listened, observed, and took notes on all the anti-gay rhetoric that was paraded out. Toward the end of the event — and the…
Read MoreDeportation Guidelines To Officially Define Same-Sex Couples As Families
Via Huffington Post Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that she will instruct immigration agents to consider same-sex relationships the same as heterosexual ones in determining whether an individual should be deported, a victory for advocates and members of Congress who worried verbal instructions could be ignored. Although the administration had previously…
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